Driving nobody round the bend

… at least, not for a while.

3rd class has been attended.  Only 3 of us there!  All women.  Luckily the teacher was not the ignorantly sexist one of the previous session as he wouldn’t have lasted two seconds!  We three had a discussion and turns out he had offended them too, but I’m gobby enough to say something!  It was nice, just being the 3 of us.  We went through the Mock Theory test.  We all passed, but I did not pass one of the set of 25 with as comfortable a margin as I would hope.  The other two flew through so I guess that makes me the remedial section!  I just need to find time to keep up with my homework and use my CD/DVDs.  There are no more full classes now, not until part 3 of the course.  I shall miss Claire and Joanne, we’d been in all the same classes before.  I think I shall leave my contact details next time I go in, as we are all going in for Mock Hazard Perception tests on the 21st, but these are solo sessions and I am first.  We could form a girls elite!  Maybe we could be the glam school of motoring together?     When shall we three meet again…?

Children aren’t the only victims

It took arguments coming to a head and truths being told.  It took harsh words given out of necessity but finally I think I understand my friend who has remained with her partner despite what they have been charged with pertaining to her children.  I have had my eyes opened as to how a Mother is a victim too.  She geuninely cannot see that what happened was wrong and that after a certain amount of similar actions they can no longer be deemed accidents.  She has been groomed.  Their whole lives became sexualised and now she cannot see where the boundaries should have stayed.

Okay, the charges are not as serious as they could be, they are at the lighter end of the sexual touch scale, but they are wrong nonetheless.  I cannot see how an adult cannot realise that what happened was wrong.  Okay everyone accidentally touches someone in the wrong place on occasion.  It’s easy to do, normally you would just blush and apologise whilst wishing the ground would swallow you up.  But the same type of ‘accident’ happening at least 10 times (the number of times this person has been charged with the same offence) which does not include at least one other of which I am aware that was witnessed.  That’s not an accident.  That’s intentional.  That’s criminal.

I hope to be capable of supporting the children and the Mother, for they are all going to have a nasty fall once the case is over.  Whatever the verdict, their lives have irrevocably altered for the worse.